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We cannot tell what anything else thinks Mrs Tortoise but we can given certain intelligent presumptions surmise what something from an altogether different view might possibly think. And given that if they knew of us at all puts them so far ahead of us that they would possibly view us as we view mushrooms

Mushroom DNA is after all only about forty steps different from our DNA

. It helps to put us in our place so to speak, Rather than certain institutes thinking the whole caboodle was made for our benefit.

Another vote for Hope here.

Mine are 6-7 years old still going strong all spares available dispite being an old out of date model & discs can be made to order.

axel_knutt wrote:

Si wrote:It's strange that the aliens would have a concept of 'meat' unless they ate it. And if they ate it then it suggests that at least part of them must be made of meat to derive the maximum benefit from it ?

To have a concept of meat but not sentient meat, they would have presumably had to encounter less sentient beings with brains (chimps? dogs? whatever.) This would then falsely presume that there is something fundamentally different in principle rather than degree between humans and chimps........

To an advanced intelligence organic life would just appear as a sort of fungus that infected certain places. They would see very little difference between a dog and a human. In fact they would not see a big gap between a human and a mushroom.

Although they might credit the mushroom with more intelligence as to-date – the mushroom has not invented ‘big brother’

Great story to finish off the week.

Puts me in the mood for a good steak!

Washing up liquid

Lubricates when putting them on and eventually washes off and disappears

Down bags are by far the best bags, small pack size for warmth, durability and repairability. Their only drawback being that they loose warmth when wet but they have to be completely soaked to be no good at all.

And in all the years I've been using them I have only once got a bag completely soaked once when sleeping outside.

So if moneys not the issue get one but make sure its got good quallity down in as it is graded, goose down being the best. (Not sure if they still use ider)

I wash mine in the washing mashine using a non detergent nickwax soap.

Dai wrote:My favourite poet is Spike Milligan - if that offends serious poets then so be it.

I am offended

Yours

William Topaz McGonagall

pliptrot wrote:I was rather hoping to spark some debate on the durability of modern components - rims in particular seem to be disposable items - and how reliability and durability are being sacrificed in the name of progress.

For those of you who pointed out that bicycles are a collection of components and each is different I'm grateful; I wasn't aware of this. Can anyone explain what steel and aluminium are?

How many people would like a return to chrome rims which last a lifetime? You can prevent wear by fitting disks or drum brakes but most people either don't want the weight or the short term expense even if they would be cheaper in the long run.

If a bike was designed that was both light inexpensive and durable people would still want to upgrade and change just cos ‘they like to’ if the moneys available. So what incentive do manufacturers have to make a bike last ages.

How many people would know how to size a bike? especially these funny modern frames.

[quote="reohn2]

Its us thats in charge of this knees up.And what makes you think Its a "He" or even a persoality.
What if there are intrinsic laws governing this experiment and the "rich" entered the afterlife disabled,black,gay,and dirt poor by degree.
Another statistic for the planet;90%of the wealth is owned by 10% of the population.That is also true of the food,that means 90% of the world is living on 10% of the food total.
If I were dirt poor I'd be looking forward to the afterlife as this one can't get much worse.
Worse still if the wealth was shared out equally we would all probably be lulled into thinking that we were all rich and have even more children therebye exasperating the problem even more.
So the world turns.[/

quote]

The after life was invented so's them as had nowt had sumat to look forward to and wouldn't cause trouble.

Three hundred years ago 100% of the world was owned by 10% ish so things are improving.

Human health has never been better understood, people no longer drop dead of minor ailments, you no longer need to spend your life half blind cos of minor eye defects. We are coming round to realize that you can't just keep pouring waste into the rivers and seas & all in a mere few hundred years or so.

Our genes are programmed to survive and replicate, and that’s what they will try do at all costs, we are the first animal that has the power to understand and control this cycle of overpopulation followed by destruction, all nature does is stumble from one disaster to the next, picking out the survivors and sending them on to the next crisis.

Fear not there is hope

reohn2 wrote:

jb wrote:Your Being a bit of a 'doomsbury Mr reohn2

After all doom is our legacy unless there really is an after life, in which case there'll be a lot of explaining to be done.

If there really is an after life 'He'll' ave a bit 'o' explaining to do anall.

Your Being a bit of a 'doomsbury Mr reohn2

It was nobut a few centuries ago that humanity managed to start casting off the repressive chains of religion, sprung lightly into the wonderful world of scientific discovery & has been enjoying a well-earned knees up ever since. We've only just begun on our exiting journey into the future.

OK so there’s been a bit off milk spilt, a few lessons to be learned, the purse isn't bottomless, the environment is not as robust as we supposed, but "hey" we can learn and progress, we just need to adjust to our new environment.

We need to learn how to live with what we have & that won’t happen over night. Unless you want us to remain in caves there’s only one way to go and that’s forward.

Cheer up and 'look' forward.

I am writing this on a 7 year old computer with a ten gig hard drive running windows 98. However soon I will be forced to replace it, not because its knackered but because it is becoming too much of a problem to keep going, more and more things don’t fit on it.

Bicycles are very much the same, some one can plod to work every day on a twenty year old bike with no problems but try using same bike for serious touring and problems soon pop up – 27 ins. Tyres, brake blocks, sprockets, chain rings etc. If moneys sloshing around in society then bikes will have a high obsolescence factor. If money is tight then manufacturers will take steps to supply parts to keep them going.

Mick F wrote:Funny you should mention punctures ....


Yes, you've guessed it, the tyre went down. Mind you, it went down over a few days. No matter how hard I blew the whole thing up, and no matter how I looked for escaping air through the tyre in the kitchen sink, (Mrs Mick F permitting) there was no sign of escaping air!

Any advice?

Mick F. Cornwall

If it takes a few days to go down, all your going to see in the 'sink' is one bubble a minute if your eagle eyed enough.

TC
they don't show the bit you mention in detail because its amazingly hard to show, because there are so many variables as you've probably found out when trying to explain the same thing to another person. so these quicky videos skip over it in their haste to get into the public eye.

Writing or explaining procedures is probably one of the hardest skills to learn but one of those things every body thinks they can do.

andrew_s wrote:The Allspeeds boxes used to have a very high clamping force instead, one side-effect of which was that the ratio couldn't be varied under load. (apparently)

Yers I had an interesting experience dismantling one once. Springs and gubbins everywhere, took me two days to reassemble it under the withering eye of my Forman.

The 'balls' in order too maximise their surface area use to have plain bushes for the spindle bearings. This is what contributes a fair amount of friction in cheap hub planet gears. The latest versions have needle rollers, but there wouldn't be the room in the veriable drive. Especially as the same pressure solidifying the lubricant must also happen in the bushes if the pressure was sufficient. Not that I’m sceptical just curious.